Michael Lee Stallard

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To Cope with Labor Shortage, Raise Emotional Compensation

Michael Lee Stallard

Raising wages and offering attractive benefit packages are the primary and traditional tools employers have used to attract and retain quality people. The pandemic has caused many people to re-evaluate their work lives and what they are willing to accept.

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Closing Your Company’s “Leadership Gap”

Michael Lee Stallard

Celebrating these leaders and their teams through organizational communications (such as the company intranet, social media, and print publications) sends a powerful message and spreads best practices. Employee engagement surveys also identify outstanding leaders who can become models for others to emulate.

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Leading With Character: Gratitude

Michael Lee Stallard

Gratitude is necessary to offset the negative bias in news reporting and media that has a 21-to-1, negative-to-positive ratio. Receiving appreciation from others meets our human need for recognition, which has the effect of encouraging and energizing us. Examples of Gratitude in Action.

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Developing Connections When People are Geographically Remote

Michael Lee Stallard

These groups can be encouraged and supported with online intranet websites and social media that increase connection among people with shared interests outside of work. Social Media can be used to inform employees and invite them into conversations about corporate issues.

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December Leadership Development Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

And finally, I recently wrote about a helpful tool for addressing leadership gaps in your organization. In closing, I’d like to thank Katie Russell, our head of communications and social media at E Pluribus Partners, for the outstanding work she did organizing this leadership carnival on behalf of our team.

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Leadership, Employee Engagement and Innovation at BIF-6 Summit

Michael Lee Stallard

This amazing woman founded a company named Maternova that helps midwives and healthcare workers by providing tools and education. Alan Webber spoke about the dismal state of our media today. Meg Wirth spoke about her passion to help women who are at risk for death when giving birth in developing countries. We reporters like I.F.